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November 07, 2006
Vosonic VP-3620
I figured it worthwhile to mention the
Vosonic VP-3620 as there are not many reviews on it.
My initial reason for purchase was for a very portable hard drive, capable of long battery times along with the ability to play music. (in particular in the car). This device did all and more.
It's touted as a photobank, yet it's also designed to play music and/or transfer data to/from various memory cards.
Utilizing a Toshiba 1.8" hard drive, this puppy is great on batteries because it loads the songs into a memory buffer, then spins down the hard drive. In most respects this is great as you can get 10-12 hours of music out of a charge.. In some respects this is bad as it prohibits gapless playback.
FWIW, it's small and light enough to deal with. Although a bit thick due to the memory cards.
One thing those who know about me is I dislike apple products due to the closed tight controls. Frankly the products themselves are great, but I don't appreciate the loss of control. Therefore I always go for these off brand products that can work as a basic USB mass storage drive.
(I still have the original NEO-25! the first MP3 hard drive player).
So with this unit, I was able to load up the drive, hang out with Tricia, and pop some music onto her music cards until she was tired of them. With a few button presses you can cut and paste between compact flash, SD and/or hard drive in any combination.
When hooked up to a laptop, it also functioned like an external hard drive/card reader.
it has an FM radio, yet it really was not worth much. Most of the foreign devices that have FM do not work well here. (although the cowon is the best I've dealt with so far).
The vosonic VP-3620 can also function as a voice or music recorder turning the audio into MP3's for later review.
I liked the unit, but after some careful consideration I sold it to my friend PhotoJoe. He could get more out of it with his outside photo excursions.
However, with my recent need for mass movement of data, I may end up getting a Vosonic VP-8360 as it will enable me to pop in a 120GB drive.
(wondering what I'm moving around? I carry vmware system disks to/from work so my development environment is never further them my book bag).
Sound on the VP-6320 was OK. Not great not bad, quite acceptable for the daily commute.
I would still have to say, the cowon A2 with all it's enhancements is one of the best players I've heard so far.
It simply makes me want to listen or watch more then any other device has done before.
I'm sad to see the VP-3620 go as I'll miss the mass storage and card readers, however my eye is on the horizion. LOL!!!
Posted by Me on November 7, 2006 07:45 PM